Birnbaum And Bullock Quotes & Sayings

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I suddenly remember Branley, her shiny, waxed legs stretched out in front of her while she talked about Alex loud enough to be heard, shooting snide glances and waiting for her to take the bait. And Alex reading Dostoyevsky like it was nothing, her own world blossoming around her.
Her own world. Population: 1. — Mindy McGinnis

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense. — Herbert Hoover

Ugliness was the one reality. — Oscar Wilde

May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do? — Kristen Johnston

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. — Martha Washington

This had expectations written all over it. Expectations that I was going to fuck up royally because I wasn't the kind of gal who wore designer nightwear and knew what all the forks were for. I was the kind of gal who thought the nightgown drawer was where old T-shirts went to die and who had only started using forks in the last century. — Karen Chance

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not. — E.P. Thompson

Each algorithm is a feedback loop, taking an action, observing the resulting conditions, and taking another action after that. Again, and again, and again. It's an iterative process, in which the algorithms adjust themselves and their activity on every loop, responding less to the news on the ground than to one another. Such systems go out of control because the feedback of their own activity has become louder than the original signal. — Douglas Rushkoff

Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

In time, this "ancient hatred" became cleverly enveloped into a religion, known as Islam. — Bill Salus

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business. — Theodore Roosevelt

I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation ... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal. — Sandy Skoglund

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes. — Stephen L. Richards